Big stick!

[Darrin Turnbull]

Any idea how old it is.

[Tom D]

It was over 6' across the cut which was high otherwise it would have been stupidly big, Its a 66 not an 88 Jon, 36" bar. The cuts in the face are from blocking out the gob.

 

It will all be getting fire wooded as we we thought it would be rotten as a pear and hadn't considered it being solid, I was amazed at how good the timber was, I reckon a 15 ton stick. I calculated that the first clean 4m weighed over 8 ton. We will cut it into 1m cheeses and lift them onto the trailer..

 

I haven't counted the rings yet...

[Stephen Blair]

Tom, come and get my double Alaskan mill and slab it up, you will be much quicker and the wood will be stunning.

[Tom D]

We have already cross cut it Stevie, I did it with a heavy heart, but the estate want it for fire wood.

[Gray git]

Good luck too them, that's some amount of work and time to free the logs in that lot!

[Stephen Blair]

I did 1 similar a few years back, not as wide on the trunk though, maybe 4' max, a stone dead beech, straight for 40 feet. I felled it for £150, and went back and lifted the timber for free to have with the valmet.

We split it over a weekend, it was a doddle to do. Monster rings, bust up with maul and through the splitter.

It was bone dry, no rot and I had it sold within a month locally. Approx 20 bulk bags, £120 a bag! Not a bad weekends work! I delivered them on the way to tree jobs so no extra outgoings really.

[arboriculturist]

Some may disagree and the contractor was not the descision maker, but the biodiversity which that tree would have supported had it been left standing is immense.

There are ways and means of managing standing deadwood from a H&S standpoint, as many on the Forum will be familiar with. Ah well, maybe next time.

[David Humphries]

Some may disagree and the contractor was not the descision maker, but the biodiversity which that tree would have supported had it been left standing is immense.

There are ways and means of managing standing deadwood from a H&S standpoint, as many on the Forum will be familiar with. Ah well, maybe next time.

 

A good and relevant point, and one that I wholeheartedly agree with & tried to convey in an article I penned in the current issue of the AA Magazine.

 

This is where public & private tree owners alike require education but also the context of the situation should be balanced against the safety aspect of the targets around it against the quantity and quality of local standing deadwood available.

 

Not every dead tree should be retained at all cost as that's just impractical, but a healthier respect and understanding for the importance of habitat is where we should all be moving towards.

 

 

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[Tom D]

Given its location on the driveway as part of a designed landscape they decided against a monolith, which I did offer them.

 

They have plenty of other dead trees in the woods.

[Ian C]

silly place to put a saw tom when your about too fell it!

 

 

 

 

Big owd girl that.